Former NSW premier Barry O'Farrell intervened in the community consultation process for a wind farm in the Southern Tablelands after being lobbied by the federal Liberal Party's chief business adviser, Maurice Newman, who owns a multimil...

Edna Griggs keenly remembers the anger and outrage she felt during the 2012 general election when she watched as African-American senior citizens were forced to wait in long lines in the Houston heat as they cued up to vote at the Acres ...

Following reports of a specific terrorist threat to Entebbe International Airport in Uganda, the U.S. Embassy in Kampala is urging travelers to review their travel plans in light of information that suggests terrorists may attack the air...

(Reuters) - Nearly 50 Indian nurses from the southern state of Kerala have been taken against their will from a hospital in the militant-controlled city of Tikrit in Iraq, India's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. At a briefing with rep...

SODERTALJE, Sweden -- What's most remarkable about this small Swedish city is how profoundly it's been shaped by distant civil wars. Because of Sweden’s embrace of political refugees, Sodertalje’s proximity to Stockholm and the tendency ...

President Obama may request to change a Bush-era law to fast-track deportations of child migrants, whose numbers have been surging in recent months, a move that immigration reform advocates say could turn away many children who qualify f...

Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and the de facto government in the Gaza strip, has reportedly agreed to an Egypt-mediated ceasefire with Israel, BBC reported Friday, citing a source. Egyptian officials have been successful...

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests on July 1 attracted tens of thousands of supporters who marched across the city, opposing the Chinese government’s efforts to exert more control on the special administrative region. In China, some loca...

(Reuters) - The Iraqi army drove Sunni insurgents out of late dictator Saddam Hussein's home village, state media and police said, part of a campaign to retake wide areas of northern and western Iraq overrun by the rebels.

(Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for improving U.S. ties during a meeting with Senator John McCain in New Delhi on Thursday, as the two countries seek to patch up their differences and boost their economic relationship. Th...

The Taliban on Thursday fired two rockets at Kabul airport burning down Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s helicopter along with three other parked helicopters. The attack on the airport, which serves as a base for NATO forces and as a term...

Stating that an independent nation is a “natural right” of the Kurdish people, Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, asked Iraq's parliament to prepare for a referendum on a sovereign Kurdistan, Al-Jazeera repor...

The Supreme Court issued an order on Thursday that temporarily allows a Christian college to notify the federal government it will not provide contraception as part of its health plan via written note, not a federally issued form. The th...

A veteran who needed an ambulance after collapsing in the cafeteria of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Veterans Affairs hospital, a short distance from the emergency room, died after waiting 30 minutes for EMS to arrive, VA officials said T...

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin called for an improvement in ties between Russia and the United States on Friday in an Independence Day message to Barack Obama, urging Washington to treat Moscow as an equal partner.

What did you ever do to become an American? Perhaps you went through the arduous task of convincing your parents to give birth to you on U.S. soil. If so, then bravo, your cosmic ability to influence fate should be applauded. You chose y...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to highlight a positive side of the immigration debate by presiding over an Independence Day citizenship ceremony for service members who signed up to defend the U.S. even though they weren'...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican who lost a primary runoff election to Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran says he plans to challenge the results in court "any day now." Chris McDaniel says he believes there were thousands of irregularities. I...

In an interview with CNN Friday, McDaniel said what matters is that fraud be uncovered where it exists and many Mississippi residents are "very angry" because they think their votes in the June 24 primary were nullified by fraud. Mississ...